Just like with the song Open the Eyes of my heart that we saw from Ephesians 1 we can home in on the simplicity of a powerful verse and miss the depths of the text and its context. And while God does do abundantly more than we ask or think in the circumstances around us, He truly wants to do so much more even than that within us.

Background: After encouraging the church at Ephesus to “not lose heart” at the end of vs. 2-13, Paul then goes back to finish the prayer he started in verse 1 of the chapter. After sharing with them their spiritual blessings, praying for the eyes of their hearts to be opened, reminding them of being spiritually alive by grace alone, and revealing the mystery of their body being one in Christ, Paul concludes this heavily theological first half of the epistle by praying for them, again. The prayers he prays in this passage, much like the eye-opening ones from chapter 1, can serve as a model for prayer that we can pray for our church. We look at the text we’re going to see: 2 knee-bowing prayers we can pray for our church. (3:14-21)